Robert Lazarsfeld
Robert Kendall Lazarsfeld (born April 15, 1953) is an American mathematician, currently a professor at Stony Brook University.[1] He was previously the Raymond L Wilder Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.[2] He is the son of sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld. His research focuses on algebraic geometry.
Robert Lazarsfeld | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Brown University Harvard University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Stony Brook University University of Michigan University of California, Los Angeles |
Doctoral advisor | William Fulton |
Doctoral students | Christopher Hacon Mihnea Popa |
During 2002-2009, Lazarsfeld was an editor at the Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Managing Editor, 2007-2009).[3] In 2012–2013, he served as the Managing Editor of the Michigan Mathematical Journal.[4]
Lazarsfeld went to Harvard for undergraduate studies and earned his doctorate from Brown University in 1980, under supervision of William Fulton.[5]
In 2006 Lazarsfeld was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7] In 2015 he was awarded the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition.[8]
Selected works
- Lazarsfeld, Robert (2004). Positivity in algebraic geometry, Vol. I. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3-540-22533-1.; Positivity in algebraic geometry, Vol. II. 2004. ISBN 3-540-22534-X.[9]
- Lazarsfeld, Robert; Van de Ven, Antonius (2012) [1984]. Topics in the geometry of projective space: Recent work of FL Zak. DMV Seminar Vol. 4. Birkhäuser; with an addendum by Fyodor Zak
References
- Robert Lazarsfeld's CV
- Univ. of Michigan Mathematics Dept. Faculty Listing, retrieved 2010-10-27.
- Past editors of the Journal of the AMS
- University of Michigan Michigan Math Journal Site
- Robert Lazarsfeld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Three U-M faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Record, May 8, 2006, University of Michigan. Accessed May 31, 2011
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
- 2015 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
- Kollár, János (2006). "Review: Positivity in algebraic geometry. I–II. by Robert Lazarsfeld" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 43 (2): 279–280. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-06-01087-1.
External links
- Website at Stony Brook University
- Robert Lazarsfeld publications indexed by Google Scholar